video gamenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈvɪd.i.əʊ ˌɡeɪm/us/ˈvɪd.i.oʊ ˌɡeɪm/A2 a game in which the player controls moving pictures on a screen by pressing buttons
Examples
- His new video game is apparently selling like hot cakes.
- He gets really hyped up when he's playing video games.
- That video game is really neat!
- The problem with video games is that they're addictive.
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Miscellaneous games & activities
- air hockey
- bingo
- bungee jumping
- cage diving
- charade
- crossword
- cryptic crossword
- domino
- free running
- freestyle football
- Frisbee
- handball
- hangman
- noughts and crosses
- pinball machine
- quoits
- softball
- tiddlywinks
- treasure hunt
- tug of war
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Examples from literature
- Football is a game – but chess, video games, and hide and seek are games, too, each with its own rules.
- For many years, researchers have studied video games.
- In books, movies, television shows, and video games the bad character often dresses in black.
- In some video games, like Warcraft, you have to fight against dragons.
- In the 1970s we didn’t have the smartphones, video games, and robots that we have today.
- Most young people now play video games.
- Now, we can play video games on computers, TVs, or phones.
- So, video games have now joined football and baseball as stadium sports.
- The researchers wondered if violent video games create violent people.
- Today, there are video game competitions in stadiums.
- You can control a computer with your body in come video games.